All Powers

The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

-- James Madison Jr. (1751 - 1836), American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817, Federalist No. 47 (30 January 1788)